Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Science, GPO Box 475, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia (M.K.U.); Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia (M.K.U., W.J.P., E.S.D.); United States Department of Agriculture Biosciences Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 5874,...

Background: In 2014, USDA established nutrition standards for snack foods sold in schools. Many manufacturers reformulated products to meet these Smart Snacks standards, but continue to advertise unhealthy versions of the same brands. Furthermore, Smart Snack packaging often looks similar to less nutritious versions sold outside of schools (look-alike products). This practice may confuse consum...

BACKGROUND In 2014, USDA established nutrition standards for snack foods sold in schools. Many manufacturers reformulated products to meet these Smart Snacks standards, but continue to advertise unhealthy versions of the same brands. Furthermore, Smart Snack packaging often looks similar to less nutritious versions sold outside of schools (look-alike products). This practice may confuse consume...

We investigated eleven particle-size distribution (PSD) models to determine the appropriate models for describing the PSDs of 16349 Chinese soil samples. These data are based on three soil texture classification schemes, including one ISSS (International Society of Soil Science) scheme with four data points and two Katschinski's schemes with five and six data points, respectively. The adjusted ...

This research investigates comfort factors of users’ aesthetic experience, in particular, the kinaesthetic aspects of human sensory activities and perceptions. The main aim of the research is to develop concepts and design principles of movement-based interaction for inducing emotion, focusing on wool clothing as an interactive object. This project utilizes theories, design practice, and existi...

1 Department of Entomology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel 2 Department of Microbiology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel 3 Israel Cohen Institute for Biological Control, Plant Production and Marketing Board, Citrus Division,...

The purpose of this project was to identify peptides that can bind and inactivate Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) polygalturonase (PG), an essential virulence factor that Xf needs to cause PD. With the year of funding we received for this project we have completed parts of objectives one and two. For objective one we were able to obtain a small amount of active recombinant Xf PG that we were able to de...

Josef Schmidhuber Global Perspectives Studies Unit Economic and Social Department Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Tel: (39) 06 570-56264 E-mail: [email protected] Prakash Shetty Nutrition Planning, Assessment and Evaluation Service Economic and Social Department Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Tel: (39) 06 570-53341 E-mail: prakash.shetty@...

Dietary intake of proanthocyanidins (PAs) has been largely unknown because of the lack of reliable values for their content in foods. Recent development of an analytical method for PAs has allowed the quantification of individual oligomers and polymers. This method has been employed to analyze food samples collected under the USDA National Food and Nutrition Analysis Program. A database of the ...

California legislation outlawed the use and sale of battery cages for egg-laying hens in 2015. While a number of ex ante studies projected the effects of the housing prohibitions, the ultimate ex post effects are unknown. Using a price series reported by the USDA, we study the movement of daily egg prices in California and the United States before and after the law’s implementation. Depending o...